Shark Tank v1.3 (2nd Seed Tulsa Regional, 7th place)

(Previous version, read for piloting details. This deck is my own variation on Toomin's N.E.A.R.P.A.D deck.)

This deck went 4-1 in Swiss (8-2 record) at the 2015 Tulsa Regionals at the Covenant Store (58 players), which got me 2nd seed going into the cut, where it unfortunately lost the only game it played in there, which came down to an incredibly lucky Legwork and Leela bounce...but that's Netrunner for you! I'm still happy with my performance overall, and was happy to place well with a non-RP deck. Here is the runner deck I played.

I wasn't originally planning on playing this deck going into the event, since I hadn't played it in nearly two months, having moved onto some other corp experiments. But my Atlanta friends convinced me to play it at the last minute (historically being my best-performing deck), so this is the newest version of that with a few new tweaks. The largest difference and best change was replacing the Encryption Protocols with Psychic Fields (shoutout to Pacer for the suggestion) to make checking every remote much more punishing, which is a common way to deal with the deck (find traps before servers get out of hand, don't let me sneak out agendas). Psychic Field did a fantastic job wiping important hands and opening up scoring opportunities for me while they recovered, afraid to hit something else nasty.

Gutenberg was a natural include, easily replacing Information Overload, which wasn't doing me much good. I also added a Marked Accounts to help with early econ, as well as adding the 3rd DBS which should have been there from the beginning.

If I had put more time into revamping this deck before the tournament, I would have replaced the City Surveillance with 2x SanSan and an extra Cyberdex Virus Suite or Blacklist. SanSan is much more taxing to trash (as well as opening up more scoring opportunities), and CVS/Blacklist can help shut down Clot, which this deck can get around by hiding agendas facedown, but prefers not to deal with. City Surveillance is a fun card, but without Encryption Protocols, it wasn't taxing enough with the 3 trash cost, and most runners I faced had pretty robust econ to skip the tags and still trash City Surveillance. It basically turned into just another server for Diversified Portfolio to give me money, and not much else. Also, I removed Psychographics, so mass tags has been removed as a win condition, so there's not much of a point to it anymore.

I don't think Midseasons works well in this variation of the deck, since it doesn't tend to get a lot of money until late game, if things are going well. I definitely considered it, but hiding agendas facedown and watching people walk on ice while running remotes is just so much fun.

Another option to replace City Surveillance is Ghost Branch, which I can use to install-advance and see what they do. What do you do against an open I-A server in NEH? Surely they aren't just giving an agenda to you...are they? I don't think it's as competitive an option, especially with the 0 trash cost, but it sounds like a lot of fun.